Harry Potter’s creator is a natural rebel who likes nothing better than a good fight.
Parts of the media suspected, wrongly, that she was an Establishment stooge: her work leading the Vaccine Taskforce has since been triumphantly vindicated.
Baker has infuriated some Tories, but others regard him as the rising hope of the stern unbending Austrian economists.
The President of COP26 is suddenly so well-known that he attracts criticism as well as admiration, and interest in his roots as an admirer of Thatcher.
If Peter Sellers were still around, he could play the President to perfection, as a politician who is all at once cunning, witty, naive and triumphant.
His compulsion to tell jokes distracts attention from more than half a century of campaigning to save the planet.
She shares with him the ability to throw opponents off balance – and a commitment to levelling up.
Part of the charm of the new Housing Secretary is that one never quite knows what he is going to do next.
Liberal Anglicans are appalled by the plan launched by the Archbishops to attain salvation through House Churches.
While Blair, Brown and Cameron scuttled off indecorously after leaving Number 10, she remains in the Commons and tries to hold Johnson to account.
In place of deviations from the Number Ten line have come the squashing of Rayner and even a comparison of the PM to Churchill.